• Brazil broke a four game losing streak against Russia with this win.

• Brazil have reached the final in four of the last five FIVB World League Finals.

• Brazil are now on a four match winning streak.

• Russia will still hope to be the first European side to win back to back World League titles since Italy in 1999 and 2000.

In a tight first set, Brazil got into a narrow 8-5 lead. Lucas Saatkamp of Brazil and Dmitriy Muserskiy of Russia made some great spikes. Brazil maintained a narrow lead up to 17-15 thanks to hits from Murilo Endres and Wallace De Souza. Russia bridged the gap and got in the lead at 23-22, thanks in particular to excellent attacks by Nikolay Pavlov and Sergey Savin, but Brazil eventually prevailed 26-24.

in the second set, Denis Birukov was dominant for Russia as the score remained tight. They got 8-7 ahead and with spikes from Muserskiy and Aleksey Spiridonov maintained their lead at 18-14. Brazil fought hard with Wallace scoring 7 points, but they could not prevent Russia from closing the set 25-22.

Score in the third set remained tight, but Brazil managed to get ahead at 10-7. With some help from Brazilian errors Pavlov led the Russian comeback, getting his side ahead 19-15. With Sidnei Dos Santos Junior playing well, Brazil bridged the gap and eventually cinched the set at 25-23.

The teams proved how evenly matched they were as the score ran up to 10-10, Spiridinov scoring well for Russia and Dos Santos Junior striking back for Brazil. Brazil got ahead 20-16 with Wallace, Murilo and Lucas spiking and blocking Russian attacks. Spiking hard in the closing phases of the match, Lucas led his team to a 3-1 victory at 25-22.

Wallace was top scorer for Brazil with 23 points while Pavlov scored 18 points for Russia.